Tag: Franz Kafka
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” at the Theater Regensburg – Bavaria
Franz Kafka strongly objected to a depiction of the vermin from “The Metamorphosis”. In 1915 his novella was to be published by Kurt Wolff Verlag; a cover illustration was planned.…
Karin Henkel stages Kafka’s novel “The Castle” at the Munich Residenztheater – Culture
Franz Kafka died a hundred years ago in June, so 2024 is Kafka’s year, and you can see that in the theater too. At the Residenztheater in Munich, Karin Henkel…
“Lecher of Horror”: Franz Kafka in Munich – Munich
Play with Johnny The film “Johnny & Me”, which tells the life of the famous graphic artist John Heartfield, had its premiere last summer at the Animated Film Festival in…
Michael Sommer verplaymobilizes old and new classics of world literature – Munich
When Michael Sommer, creator of 504 episodes of “Sommer’s World Literature to Go”, implemented his major year-long project to “verplaymobilize” the Bible in 2021, it was clear to him: “Now…
László Krasznahorkai’s stories “In the delusion of others”. Kafka today. – Culture
His stories might then read like those of the Hungarian László Krasznahorkai: brilliantly monomaniacal, they deal with the escape into stagnation and the longing to refuse everything. It starts with…
Burgtheater Vienna: Who is the animal here?
At Vienna’s Burgtheater, the productions “Nosferatu” and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” deal with the question of how human humans actually are. source site
At the start of the anniversary “Kafka 2024” the Kafka Band rocks in the Literaturhaus – Munich
You feel a little like the frozen surveyor K., who arrives in a snowy Bohemian village on a winter evening when you are out and about in the freezing rain…
Kafka Year at the Goethe-Institut: Party with Gregor Samsa
The Goethe-Institut is looking forward to the Kafka year 2024 and has announced a pretty crazy program. source site
“The Process” at the Cologne Theater: Nobody forces you – culture
Pınar Karabulut saved a special dramaturgical volte for last. One fears that she left out the cathedral chapter and thus the famous doorkeeper parable for reasons of time; because Josef…
Exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death: Captivating variations
“Kafka: 1924” intertwines literature and art in an intelligent and entertaining way. It is a symphonic poem – and one of the best exhibitions of recent times at Villa Stuck.…